Kellogg’s: The Disturbing Reason Corn Flakes Exist
5/18/202655 min
This episode contains adult topics and themes
Ever wondered how the world's most popular cereal ended up in your breakfast bowl?
The story behind Cornflakes is stranger than you'd think, meet John Harvey Kellogg, the man whose obsession with gut health and moral purity accidentally changed the way the world eats breakfast.
0:00 Intro
5:40 Two truths and a lie
7:30 The religious pipeline
10:40 Picking the doctor
13:35 The San
17:45 Gut Health
24:34 The anti masturbation crusade
29:41 The accidental invention
35:11 The rival next door
37:26 The brothers split
43:52 A note on more dark stuff
46:06 The end
50:42 Two truths and a lie
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First 90 secondsChris Kohler· Host0:00
Rob, what'd you have for breakfast, mate?
Rob· Host0:02
I had a wrap which consisted of two boiled eggs, some cherry tomatoes, and some hot sauce. I thought I had avocado, but we ate it the night before.
Chris Kohler· Host0:12
That's good.
Rob· Host0:13
Yeah.
Chris Kohler· Host0:13
Did you make that at home?
Rob· Host0:14
Yeah, I did.
Chris Kohler· Host0:15
That's nice.
Rob· Host0:16
Yeah.
Chris Kohler· Host0:16
That's, you know, cafe stuff.
Rob· Host0:17
Yeah, it's pretty good. I've, I've figured out the timing of putting my eggs on to boil, jumping into the shower, getting out- Oh, that's- ... and then ready to go.
Chris Kohler· Host0:24
You got a system.
Rob· Host0:25
Yeah.
Chris Kohler· Host0:25
Jesus, I'm feeling really exposed right now because I don't have a system.
Rob· Host0:28
Okay.
Chris Kohler· Host0:28
I'm... Like, every day is a mystery and a bit of a shanking, if I'm honest.
Rob· Host0:32
Yeah.
Chris Kohler· Host0:32
Like, kids get toast. I don't know what I'm doing. Wife's in the, you know, getting ready in the shower, and I'm, I, I'm at sea. I don't know what I'm doing, [laughs] so.
Rob· Host0:39
Yeah. A, a lot of it does rely on the patience of a two-year-old. [laughs] And if I can go, "Hey, play with this truck for the next six minutes and don't move," then we're on.
Chris Kohler· Host0:47
Then we're right. I mean, it's one of those things that, um, you know, it's universal. Everybody has to have something in their tummy, but I don't know. It's different for everyone, and I actually ask that question a weirdly huge amount. You know, "What did you have for breakfast?" When someone's nervous in front of a microphone or a camera, it's kinda the first thing I ask, and I do it for two reasons. First, I need to check the audio levels, and second, it kinda helps distract them and get them out of their head, I find, and it kinda works. Stops their thought process dead, and it sort of reminds them that it's just a chat, nothing to worry about. This is if they're on TV or radio. And when I ask people that question, I cannot tell you how many times the answer comes back Corn Flakes. It's absolutely still a thing. And